Reality is a chilling, forensic dramatisation of a whistleblower interrogation
Tina Satter’s verbatim treatment of the FBI’s questioning of a young NSA translator is deeply unsettling.
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The Little Mermaid deserves a progressive remake. This isn’t it
Its black Ariel caused a racist backlash, but Bridgerton-style casting isn’t enough to give Disney's new version any cultural depth.
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Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener is inexcusably nasty – and yet I loved it
This story of an ex-white supremacist and a mixed-race woman tending to the grounds of a former plantation will make…
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Beau Is Afraid is a cartoonishly Freudian horror
Ari Aster’s black comedy about malign maternal influence is full of cod-psychology that makes Psycho look like a Mother’s Day…
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The Eight Mountains is a rare portrait of male friendship
This moving film takes on a truly unusual subject: a durable, unstated, non-sexual relationship between two men.
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A Thousand and One understands the effects of gentrification
In this sensitive debut about a mother who steals her son from care, AV Rockwell maps the contours of a…
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Kristoffer Borgli’s Sick of Myself: the worst people in the world?
The wretchedly self-absorbed lead and her artist boyfriend are truly, absurdly awful. To what end?
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Hail the assassins
The American youth has lost its radical temper – Daniel Goldhaber’s film How to Blow Up a Pipeline is an…
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